Jim Browder
Lexington, KY - Jim Browder, president of the recently renamed Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau, has resigned his post effective immediately.
Browder, who took over the reigns of what is now VisitLEX in June of 2011, told Business Lexington last month about what the organization had been juggling between a proposed renovation of Rupp Arena and the city's convention facilities as well as a possible relocation of VisitLEX's Visitors Center after moving into its current location in October of 2012.
“In our world, our job is to sell what they build,” he said in the May edition about the prospect of the Rupp Arena and convention center project. “When I came here … I didn’t come here and say, ‘Hey, you need to rebuild Rupp; you need to redo the convention center.’ I inherited the environment, and my job is to sell it and make sure that this is a preferred destination to convention groups."